How to lead academic departments successfully

Contents: Introduction to how to lead academic departments successfully -- Part I: Challenges of being an academic leader -- 1. On the particular challenges of managing professionals / Flemming Poulfelt -- 2. Relevant leadership: The dynamic equilibrium of managing and leading academic departments / Rickie A. Moore -- 3. The role of academic leaders of a business school: An internal tensions perspective / Matthew J. Robson -- Part II Transformational and performance leadership -- 4. The head of department as the key transformational leader / Asbjørn Busk J. and Søren Barlebo Rasmussen -- 5. Leading with purpose: Developing the first business school for public good / Martin Kitchener -- 6. Leading academic departments / Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones -- 7. Individual performance management: Enabler or threat to academic performance? / Andreas Werr and Katja Einola -- 8. Deploying systems thinking to create a 'triple-crown' business school / Michael C. Jackson OBE -- Part III Inclusivity, team spirit and career development -- 9. 'Don't think you can be everyone's friend': Dealing with conflict in an academic department / Alan Irwin -- 10. Smells like team spirit: A user's guide for department heads / Peter Kjær -- 11. 'Now you see it': Gender, inclusion and diversity / Maja Horst -- 12. Leading faculty as teachers / Hanne Andersen -- 13. Inclusive onboarding in academic departments / Daniel J. Petzer, Nicola S. Kleyn and Michele Ruiters -- Part IV Building, leading and funding research groups -- 14. Building research groups / Adam Lindgreen, C. Anthony Di Benedetto, Roderick J. Brodie and Peter Naudé -- 15. Dilemmas in university management: The case of copenhagen business school / Nanna Mik-Meyer -- 16. Pathways to external funding at departments: How to strengthen a change of culture by empowerment, supportive organizing and leadership? / Enno Hofeldt -- Part V Collaboration with other disciplines and practitioners -- 17. Collaborating with practitioners / C. Anthony Di Benedetto, Adam Lindgreen, Marianne Storgaard and Ann Højbjerg Clarke -- 18. Leading academics in a public-private partnership: Balancing value and performance-based leadership in times of (climate) change / Morten W. Jeppesen -- 19. Undertaking cross-disciplinary research / Adam Lindgreen, C. Anthony Di Benedetto, Roderick J. Brodie and Michel van der Borgh -- Part VI Leadership in different contexts -- 20. Framing business schools as a socio-technical system: Issues around complexity and emergence / Denis Fischbacher-Smith -- 21. Business school leadership in an era of change and uncertainty: Complex structures, executive education and accreditation / Kai Peters -- 22. Academic leadership: The danish case / Jacob Kjær Eskildsen and Børge Obel PART VII PERSONAL LEADERSHIP REFLECTIONS -- 23. Responsibilities of the department chair: Lessons from the frontline / Thomas G. Cummings -- 24. How to lead an academic marketing department: Some personal observations and reflections / Gerrit van Bruggen -- 25. From head to dean: Academic leadership / Peter Møllgaard -- Index.